10 box machine setup, first timer help

[heyaz]

Sounds great. About how much would all of this run? And you say 1GB ram per character which would put me at 10GB video ram to 10 box? I'd need two 4GB cards at least?

I'm fine with low settings on all slaves, I don't care about shadows or super textures but one thing I do want is view distance. Obviously on my old machine even the main has view distance at like 0, I can't even see where I'm going. I at least want med/high on the main and possibly medium on the slaves. I could care less about ultra anywhere, but I want high FPS even say at the worst place for me now - Docks in IOC where I get <1 fps.

As far as RAM - I'm finding 1600 is Very cheap to where I could get 32GB or even 64GB... 1833 is running a bit more

CPU - nothing more than 4 cores on the latest gen? I'd have to pay a premium for the newest kit anyway. Would rather have 6 or more cores. Any good setups maybe dual 6 core 3930Ks?

EDIT: I just noticed the hex core 3930k is twice the cost of the 4 core but I don't know if multi-cpu motherboards are readily available in the consumer market, if they were I'd put in two 4 cores